I'm Not Making This Up

While we were gone, a friend of ours experienced heart problems. She has had this in the past and it was serious enough that she called the hospital and they sent an ambulance.

The ambulance was brand new. Which is a good thing if you've seen the old ones.

They loaded her into the ambulance but they couldn't get the doors closed because she was too long.

She is a tall lady but no more than 6 feet.

No problema!

This is the Land of Work-a-Rounds. Two attendants held the doors OPEN while they raced to David, about an hour away.

Can you picture this? Like a Keystone Cops 30's movie. Guys hanging out of the ambulance, swinging on the doors, with a fretting nurse wiping the brow of the patient.

Then, you guested it, it started to rain.

She arrived at the hospital with wet feet.

I know, there are all sorts of things that could have been done to avoid this situation...but none of them were used.

On a more serous note, a guy was severely beaten in his home last week.

As it turns out, he withheld a lot of money from his builder because the builder was many months late on the completion of his house.

The court system is a joke but the vengeance systems is up and working just fine.

This is not an isolated incident with builders and withheld money. Several more happened in the last year.

It makes me grateful that Yella and I decided to pay our builder his final payment even though he had no right to it. He screwed us out many thousands of dollars.

I would rather have an empty wallet than a broken head.

Ah, paradise.